Category: philosophy
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Gifts of the Poets: Eugene B. Redmond and Coleman Barks (part 1)
Cover of Visible Man: The Life of Henry Dumas by Jeffrey B. Leak Among the greatest gifts that poets bestow upon each other’s lives are those of identity and validation. It is often through the mirror of words, meaning, and soul created by one poet that another begins to…
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Text and Meaning in T.J. Reddy’s Poems in One-Part Harmony (part 3 of 4)
Author Signe Waller explores the costs of love and freedom in the book LOVE & REVOLUTION. “…With endurance, laughter and a song these walls of injustice can be torn down, light can enter the rubble, the road to freedom can become more visible…” ––T.J. Reddy from the poem “We Are…
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Text and Meaning in T.J. Reddy’s Poems in One-Part Harmony (part 1 of 4)
“And the syndrome goes on; this is only a poem, wondering when to our senses we will come home.” ––T.J. Reddy (from A Poem About A Syndrome) Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific…
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Putting Text and Meaning to the Guerrilla Decontextualization test (pt. 1 of 2)
The dancers of Cirque Du Soleil’s production of “Immortal,” based on the music of Michael Jackson, light up the stage in Dubai. (photo courtesy of GulfNews TV) “He got kicked in the back He say he needed that He hot willed in the face…